He represents the Renaissance spirit in its emotional aspect, as Paracelsus represents the spirit of the Reformation in its passion for knowledge.
Blaine, therefore, arose one day in the House of Representatives and holding the letters in his hand read selections and defended himself in a remarkable burst of emotional oratory.
It was an unusual political gathering both in its personnel--for women delegates shared in its deliberations--and in the emotional fervor which dominated its sessions.
What attracts France in these characters is the contrast between the emotional life of the two women, between the religiously erotic rapture of the Asiatic and the tradition-sanctioned conjugal love of the Roman matron.
Or let us remember the place occupied by imaginary existences in our own emotional life.
But a victory by Turkish arms would probably instantly change the situation and might loose the pent-up fanaticism of the most intensely emotional of the Oriental races.
The fact was duly recorded in the Press with considerable emotional comment, and the old dispute as to her guilt or innocence was temporarily revived.
On the emotional man surveying the scene and listening to the light conversation, sometimes to the jokes, this feature of a murder trial makes a vivid impression.
I knew another woman who did not know how to relax; so, to get free from this emotional excitement, she would turn her attention at once to figures, to her personal accounts or even to saying the multiplication table.
The truth was that he had dreaded his own irritability as much as he had dreaded her emotional demanding.
There is more selfish demanding in a woman's emotional suffering because her husband does not do this or that or the other for her sake than there is in a tornado of man's irritability or anger.
To ally any feeling of this sort that might tend to excite those who are so emotional as even to love their own grandchildren, some sort of soothing syrup should be administered.
As a cure for pessimism the emotional tonic is strongly recommended.
I think we have failed utterly, Mr. Hill, to lay special emphasis upon either the evolutional or the emotional in agriculture.
There exists an all-pervading emotional medium, into which every thought that is tinged with emotion sends a ripple.
Not the slightest interest was taken in the emotional or psychological side; it was all purely and exactly scientific.
It must not be thought that we spent our time wholly in these emotional relations.
The body, by its joys and sufferings alike, offers a great obstruction to these emotional waves.
I had many conversations on the point with one of my teachers, a young man of very wide experience, who combined in an unusual way a close scientific knowledge of the subject with a peculiar emotional sympathy.
But though I showed him the illogical nature of his position, he hung back--whether from material motives or from mere emotional associations I will not now stop to inquire.
Nevertheless, with all their artificiality, they were hinting at an emotional phenomenon which actually exists.
Another instance of this emotional embroidery may be found on pages 15-17 of the same treatise.
I myself have pointed out that among nations, as among individuals, intellectual culture alone does not insure a capacity for true love, because that also implies emotional and esthetic culture.
Romantic love is, as I have remarked before, not merely an emotional phenomenon, but an active impulse.
It was at first intended merely as a personal experiment in emotional psychology.
In its later development the capacity of the language for emotional expression was greatly enlarged.
A large number of these poets impress us as having just as little emotionalveracity in writing as had Cowley in The Mistress.
These passages, judged absolutely, may not be remarkable for insight or tenderness, but in those days all emotional subjects were treated crudely.
With this buoyancy of spirits andemotional susceptibility, serious minds touched with poetry have associated various deep and beautiful moods.
A young boy sorrowing over and caressing a dead bird is surrounded by a flood of curved interwoven threads of emotional disturbance.
When the man's energy flows outwards towards external objects of desire, or is occupied in passional and emotional activities, this energy works in a less subtle order of matter than the mental, in that of the astral world.
At the present time observers outside the Theosophical Society are concerning themselves with the fact that emotional changes show their nature by changes of colour in the cloud-like ovoid, or aura, that encompasses all living beings.
Children too are very sympathetic, and a really skilful teacher, by the concert method, can do a great deal in cultivating the emotional nature of a large class.
So, too, the moral and emotional faculties may receive the first germs of their development at a very early stage in the history of the human being.
I had hoped, however, that it would appeal to those in whom a purely musical receptivity outweighed the desire to satisfy emotional cravings.
You see, you just symbolize the liquefaction of the essence of an idea into its emotional constituents, and there you are!
That emotional old, old lady On a staircase at half-past three.
If the soul be an entire mass of intelligence, a current of ideas, its real salvation depends on its becoming pure and eternal truth without mixture of falsehood or of emotional disturbance.
Convention means only a coming together, an agreement; and as every poet must base his work upon an emotional agreement among men, so every poet must base his work upon a convention.
All these characters in the story, Browning would realise from their own emotional point of view before he gave judgment.
But she was partly under the influence of her own quality of passionate ingenuity oremotional wit of which we have already taken notice in dealing with her poems, and she was partly also no doubt under the influence of Browning.
On its theoretic and perceptive side, morality touches science; on its emotional side, Art.
We pay for greater emotional susceptibility too often by nervous diseases of which the peasant knows nothing.
An emotional renascence swept like a torrid simoon over Europe.
Illowski could but discover this hidden philosophers stone, this true Arcana of all wisdom, this emotional lever of Archimedes, why then the whole world would be his: his power would depose Pope and Emperor.
Belus was the Raphael of the piano, and master of the emotional world.
Of what avail the seed-bearing Bach and his fugues--emotional mathematics, all of them!
The most emotional and romantic people in Europe had a common-place king.
Not anchored, as is England, in an historic past which she reveres, and with a singularly gifted and emotional people who are the sport of the current of the hour, who can predict her future!
But the music embodies all that we really believe and feel about the fact, its intimate, emotional essence, clear of everything irrelevant and external.
Many forms of unity in works of art are themselves media of expression--the simplest and most striking example is perhaps the rhythmical ordering of sounds in poetry and music, the emotional value of which everybody appreciates.
There is a concreteness of emotional content in some musical compositions--an arousal of terror and longing and despair and joy--infinitely richer than any abstract forms of feeling.
Thus, an emotional and suggestible woman, in watching a fine performance of "Magda," inevitably puts herself in the place of the heroine if she has herself lived through a similar experience.
In reverie we turn our attention back over events in our own lives that have had for us a rare emotional significance; these events then come to embody the wonder, the interest, the charm that excited us to recollect them.
And this effect is not confined to lyrical art, for so far as, in novel and drama, we put ourselves in the place of the dramatis persona, we can pour our own emotional experiences into them and through them find relief for ourselves.
The perfume of flowers, of roses and of violets, has a strong emotional appeal; it is their "soul" as the poets say.
It is not necessary that the image appear clear in the mind; for its emotional value can be conveyed even when it is obscure and marginal.
And this process of emotional and objectifying perception has clearly no other end than just perception itself.
It is not, for example, like the emotional significance that the sound of the voice of the loved one has for the lover, which even he may some day cease to feel, and which other men do not feel at all.
Nevertheless, the distinction made by Browning between the intellectual and emotional elements of human life is very common in religious thought.
In the life of man at least, the separation of the emotional and intellectual elements extinguishes both.
I mention this regrettable emotional feeling in order to make my subsequent conduct intelligible to you.
And yet I have an idea that this very emotional serving-woman seemed to predict some horrible catastrophe to the travellers.
There was a pulse of red darkness in Beardsley's brain as all the mental and emotional equations of his being sang a sharp alarm.
Things in it that were at one on the emotional side were flatly at war on the intellectual.
The former may compel our intellectual assent, but the latter awaken our emotional sympathy.
The emotional part of his nature is in strict subjection, his resentment enduring but unspoken, his gratitude of the sort that silently descends from generation to generation.
The Englishman follows virtue from a sense of duty, the Frenchman from an emotional aspiration toward the beautiful The one admires a noble action because it is right, the other because it is attractive.
The modern music expresses the results of a richer and more varied emotional experience, and in wealth of harmonic resources, to say nothing of increased skill in orchestration, it is notably superior to the old music.
It is not the emotional prompting toward righteousness, it is not the yearning to live im Guten, Ganzen, Wahren, that he seeks to weaken; quite likely he has all this as much at heart as the theologian who vituperates him.
Now, this emotional prompting toward completeness of life requires, of course, that conduct should be guided, as far as possible, in accordance with a true theory of the relations of man to the world in which he lives.
We will say, however, that we do not see how music can in any way express ideas, or anything but moods or emotional states to which the ideas given in language may add determination and precision.
